- Facebook shares have been in free fall since they floated. What was the value of all Facebook shares when they floated? What is their value now? What caused this decline in value and what is the future for Facebook? (This question is not about Mark Zuckerberg, don’t mention the movie (loosely based on his life). What are Zuckerberg’s options now?
- Does the extensive use of computer/video games have an adverse impact on the health of young people. What are the most recent papers? Clarify what all sides of the argument claim and only then offer your reasoned opinion based on facts.
- What is communication? Do whales communicate? Do birds? Do atoms? Does DNA communicate? What would you suggest as the limits to communication? When does a failure of human communication occur?
- Discuss interesting findings from your survey task in week 5. How do your results compare with other data such as that available through Pew Research Center and the Australian Bureau of Statistics? What do your results reveal about the ways people use new technologies.
- Is there a conflict between notions of copyright and free speech? How is new communication technology impacting on both those ideas and what are the effects in terms of profits and costs and the quality of democratic debate.
- Cyberspace: utopian promised land or empty rhetoric? Explain this dichotomy with reference to sites, programs and on-line events. What is a consensual hallucination anyway and are they common in human society? Is there a future for the concept of cyberspace beyond this dichotomy?
- Choose a cyberpunk story or movie. Compare the economic and social world it conjures with the real world today. How close is this imagined world to our world and are we moving towards the imagined world or away from it?
- Formulate your own topic and have it approved by your tutor.
My topic that I have chosen is topic number six.
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